Mountains of Molehills (6 of 10)

Objectives

Acquire 20 x Cap Booster 25 (20.0m³) and deliver them to your agent.

Mission Type: Manufacturing

Overview

The sixth mission in the industrial career chain is another manufacturing mission just like the third, where you were tasked with producing a pair of Civilian Afterburners from a blueprint copy for your agent. The main difference here, besides having to produce a different item, is that producing this item requires minerals you won’t have easy access to yet. Unless you’ve managed to find ores containing the yerite and mexallon in addition to the tritanium you’ll need to produce the Cap Booster 25, you’ll have to source them from the market.

• Pyerite can probably be found with some ease in or around a rookie system, if the belts aren’t mined out already; pyerite can be refined from the scordite ore, which is relatively abundant in most highsec belts.
• Mexallon, on the other hand, is found in slightly more advanced ores like kernite, which may have been mined out already even if the whole belt isn’t gone yet, considering the more valuable ores are generally targeted first by other players for harvesting.

It is pretty cheap to acquire the small amount of minerals you need for the two production runs from the market. Just as a friendly reminder, make sure to multiply the bill of materials as it gives you values for a single run.

As a totally viable second option, you can also just purchase 20 manufactured Cap Booster 25s from other players on the market. Unlike the Civilian Afterburners you needed to manufacture last time around, these items are actually frequently used and produced outside of the career arcs, thus making them both abundant and affordable.

Rewards:

• + 0.4971 % corporation standing
• 1 x Cap Booster 25 Blueprint (Copy, 2 Runs, ML 5, PL 2) (granted)
• 224,000 Isk
• 167,000 Isk bonus (4 hours, 32 Minutes)